Let the color of wine be the inspiration for your dining room.
Take a cue from that bottle of Bordeaux you pour for dinner and let it inspire you for your dining room decor. Wine comes in several shades from a light and airy white zinfandel which is actually a deep pink to rich burgundy. Use it in small doses for flooring and walls and go all out on the table.
Flooring
Wine-colored wall-to-wall flooring might be too overpowering. Keep the color manageable and underfoot by anchoring the dining room table with an area rug that has shades of wine on a light background. If you're considering replacing your current flooring with ceramic tile, create a border of decorative wine tiles around the perimeter of the dining room.
Walls
Painting the entire room a wine color might be exhilarating, cozy or claustrophobic. Since the dining room is used for entertainment, you should consider how your guests may feel enclosed in a wine-colored box. Play up the wine color by painting only one wall that color as a focal point and the other walls a more neutral color. Wall paper that's mostly light colored with touches of wine in the print is easy on the eyes. Try stenciling a border of red grapes and leaves around the room right below the ceiling.
Windows
Heavy burgundy damask drapes might work for the palace at Versailles but not in most modern dining rooms. Use the color on the valance only and add sheer burgundy drapes with side panels of a neutral color. Drapes with burgundy stripes would work as well.
Tablescape
The table is where you use wine colors to your heart's content. Floral arrangements and candles should either be low or high but not at eye level where they interfere with diners conversing across the table. Burgundy flowers include roses, lilies, peonies and chrysanthemums. Contrast the burgundy color with splashes of lime green flowers such as orchids, tulips and calla lilies. Pops of pink make the wine-colored flowers seem brighter. Place white candles in clear wine-colored glass votives. Create a centerpiece on a wine-colored trimmed table runner by floating burgundy flowers in different heights of wine glasses. China should show off the food, so do as restaurants do and choose a white or off-white color. Pick up the burgundy color with a charger -- an oversized dinner plate -- underneath the china. Pull a burgundy napkin through a ring and place on top of the china.
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